The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 51
As night drew on Cassim’s wife grew very uneasy, and ran to her brother-in-law, and told him where her husband had gone.
Who acts: wife, husband · What happens: draw, grow, run, tell, go · To what, where: Cassim · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, husband), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADP | _ | 2 night | case |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obl |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 8 grew | mark |
| 5 | Cassim | Cassim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Cassim | case |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grew | nsubj |
| 8 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | advcl |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 uneasy | advmod |
| 10 | uneasy | uneasy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 grew | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ran | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ran | cc |
| 13 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 brother | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 brother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ran | obl |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 law | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 law | case |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 in | punct |
| 20 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brother | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 told | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 told | cc |
| 23 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 told | iobj |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 gone | advmod |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 husband | nmod:poss |
| 27 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 gone | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 gone | aux |
| 29 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 told | ccomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | night | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | Cassim's wife | uneasy property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run | past | to wife's brother and law result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to brother=Result | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Cassim | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | go | past · perfect | wife's husband | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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